Example sentences of "perhaps a year " in BNC.

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1 The child was perhaps a year old and was engaged in beating his — or it might have been her — mother about the shoulders with tiny chubby fists .
2 It takes several months for the dust veil to spread in this way , and then perhaps a year or two for the material to fall out of the stratosphere and for normal warming of the Earth 's surface by the Sun to be restored .
3 It would take months , perhaps a year , for such strength to seep away .
4 D'Arcy guessed he was Chantal 's age , perhaps a year or two older .
5 Those who did receive schooling did so for perhaps a year or two , often much less , at some point in their childhood , with hardly any attending school beyond the age of ten or eleven .
6 He died in 594 or perhaps a year later .
7 Although the Museum 's buildings were insured , it will be months , perhaps a year before they might be replaced .
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